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That Was 2011
2012-01-05 23:31:00 This year my usual series of end-of-year posts have been postponed due to extended New Year’s celebrations. A somewhat different format to last year, though much the same sentiment remains, as well as one person who’s photograph appeared last year being much more prominent twelve months later. No matter, let’s get going. In all, it’s ... More About: Personal
So that was Christmas 2011
2011-12-27 16:39:00 Christmas is a strange time of year. Church on Sunday For the most part I love Christmas. For me it it’s about few days to chill-out with family; eat lots of chocolate, have a few drinks, hang out with my awesome cousins, a nice meal (stuffing!), refuse to wear paper hats, argue with my parents ... More About: Christmas , Personal
Decembrrr
2011-12-02 00:47:00 It’s december and I’m majorly stressing. The todo list is long. Free time is non-existent. I need help. More About: Personal
Wave Goodbye
2011-11-24 08:38:00 Google have announced the closure of a few little-used products in their “off-season spring clean”. Google Wave – an attempt to combine email and instant messaging for real-time collaboration. I didn’t use it. Just like everyone else. Google Bookmarks List - a service which allowed users to share bookmarks with friends. For cloud-based bookmarks I ... More About: Google
St Petersburg Passes First Stage of Anti-?Gay Progaganda? Law
2011-11-23 11:11:00 On Wednesday 16th November, lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill which introduces into St Petersburg Law on ?administrative offences in St Petersburg? fines for ?propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism, to minors? and ?propaganda of paedophilia?: Article 71. Public actions aimed at propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgenderness amongst minors. Public actions aimed ...
Stamp of Approval
2011-11-22 15:18:00 Part of the beauty of social networking for me has always been personal recommendations; I could care less what the guy who writes for the local paper thinks of the latest blockbuster, instead I look for thoughts of those I know through a variety of online platforms. Rather than ask 20 friends what they think ... More About: Technology , Phone , Stamp
Jameson/QFT Christmas Special #JamesonDieHard
2011-11-18 17:30:00 Everyone has a favourite Christmas movie, right? This December Queens Film Theatre and Jameson Whiskey are going to show one of three classic Christmas movies: Die Hard (1988) Elf (2003) or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) The choice is pretty easy, right? Die Hard for sure! Certainly my choice in this case. Elf is just ... More About: Marketing , Movies , Special , Belfast
Why The MTV EMAs Made Me Angry
2011-11-10 09:29:00 Celebrity culture: it’s everywhere and it’s very difficult to escape. I realise I sound like my Grandparents, though worse perhaps than my own Grandparents as they don’t understand just how bad celebrity culture is today. And how much it bothers me. I have many issues surrounding idolising those in the spotlight, those with their 15mins ... More About: Culture , Celebrity , Angry , Made , Belfast
What a Tangled Web I Weave
2011-11-01 19:10:00 This used to be my go-to place for updating the world as to my goings on. But more than that, I have always used my blog for myself. It is a journal. A diary if you will. It allows me to look back and remember a part of my life. It is more personal than ... More About: Personal
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2011-10-06 02:37:00 Steve Jobs changed so much in his lifetime. He revolutionised the world we live in. He revolutionised my world. May he rest in peace. Here?s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They?re not fond of rules. And they ... More About: Apple
Found Typography in Paris
2010-10-27 16:11:00 Paris is an undeniably historic artistic city, and so while there, I captured some of this, through some old type to modern type. I’ve become a little bit of a type-geek. More About: Paris , Typography
Gay Paree Part 1
2010-10-22 18:00:00 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; Paris is dirty and polluted, vulgar, unscrupulous, exploitative and offensive, but I still love it. It’s appealing in so many ways; the stunning architecture, the beautiful people, delicious food, boulangeries, the metro (it has rubber wheels!), fashion, art, bars, nightlife, history… I’ve been a few times now, ... More About: Part
Dinard
2010-10-21 20:40:00 Dinard is a small seaside town in Brittany with beaches and a long walk under the huge villas. Along by the beach is a large statue of Alfred Hitchcock. It is said that while he did spend much time here, he also based the house used in Psycho on one of the villas.
The National ? Green Gloves
2010-10-20 21:55:00 I was introduced to The National by Valérie-Anne back in May. I immediately fell in love. So many wonderful songs. Make me go all funny inside. One of my many favourites: The National ? Green Gloves Falling out of touch with all my friends are somewhere getting wasted, hope they’re staying glued together, I have arms for them. Take another sip of them, it floats ...
Pointe du Raz; Far West
2010-10-18 11:33:00 Pointe du Raz is an area of rocky terrain at the most western point of France ? an amateur rock-climber’s dream. It offers a brilliantly dramatic view, and exciting hike across the jagged hostile landscape while watching the water crash on the rocks below. Oh the way back from the rock(s), we stopped at Baie des ... More About: West
I Will Be a Writer.
2010-10-15 13:10:00 There are many things I enjoy the idea of doing often more than actually doing them. Writing is one of them, in a way. I like the idea of writing thought-provoking essays, opinion pieces, and wordy pseudo-intellectual studies that make everyone take a second to think about the state of the world today. Alas, it’s ... More About: Writer
All Delighted People Raise Their Hands; Sufjan Stevens
2010-10-14 16:54:00 It doesn’t really bother me as much as it should that Sufjan Stevens is a Christian; simply put, his music is mind-blowing. Regardless of his 2006 5-CD Christmas Songs collection (which certainly isn’t bad) and numerous biblical references on other releases, particularly those of Seven Swans [2004], his music speaks volumes, and a voice that ... More About: People , Hands
Quimper
2010-10-13 16:10:00 Due to being pretty busy lately blogging has been a bit intermittent, and I’m still harping on about my France/Birmingham holiday way back in August. I have a few more posts that will be spread out over the next couple of weeks between a lot of other posts I’m also working on, and if I ...
Where Do You Store Your Bread?
2010-10-08 17:27:00 For the most part, we do the things our parents taught us, eat the food they fed us, and a generally carry on the habits and traditions they instilled on us. Which is the very reason I keep my bread in the fridge. Though to give it my own slant, I believe it keeps it ... More About: Store , Bread
Slow News? Twitter Reaction To The Derry Bomb
2010-10-05 11:53:00 Last night minutes after a bomb was heard in Derry the news was reported by locals, and even some staying in the hotel just across from where it happened. It wasn’t until just over an hour later, around 1am, that this was reported by any of the news networks. The first, I believe was the ... More About: News , Twitter , Bomb
Going to University
2009-09-14 10:00:00 I walked out of the interview convinced I hadn’t got it; that I hadn’t said enough or shown that I had enough of a clue. I didn’t mention having had a number of exhibitions, photographs in local and national newspapers, having worked with a number of high profile clients. I did say that I’ve developed ... More About: University
Twestival Local
2009-09-09 09:39:00 The first Twestival took place in Feburary, with money raised going to Charity:Water, this time around Twestival Local is hitting the Bunatee bar in Queens Students Union on Thursday from 7pm in aid of Camphill NI - which was established to teach, train and care for those with special needs because of their various mental, ...
New Design
2009-09-08 09:05:00 After a few months in my head, and a few weeks fiddling with CSS, I’ve changed the design of the blog. I think I’m happy with it. But it’ll only be a matter of time before I find something I don’t like. Background = #FFF Text = #000 Font = “Helvetica”,”Arial̶ 1;; Font size = 12pm Line-height = 1.3em Images = 700px For ... More About: Design
Barry?s
2009-09-07 22:39:00 When I was younger no trip to the house in Portstewart was complete without plenty of pestering: “Mum can we go to Barry ’s?” “Dad, Can we go to Barry’s?” “CAN WE GO TO BARRY’S?!” More often than not the answer was no. It was harder on the occasions we passed through Portrush to get to Portstewart. Oh there were ...
I?m not into plane spotting but?
2009-09-06 21:51:00 The annual Airshow at Portrush was this weekend and I was there yesterday for just a little plane spotting. It wasn’t the most exciting event in the world. But quite cool none-the-less and well worth it just to have super-jumbo the Airbus A380 flying straight for the cliff edge I was sitting at with other ... More About: Plane
The Varionis
2009-09-05 11:29:00 Some shots from a recent photoshoot with Belfast band The Varionis.
Meeow - My New Housemates
2009-09-03 20:58:00 My Granny loved cats and had one for as long as I remember. This was the first, and for a long time, the only feline I had contact with. As much as I wanted one of my own - though more so a puppy - the best I could hope for were hamsters and goldfish. ...
I was a web designer for a day
2009-09-03 00:39:00 Today was the first of the Future of Web Design (pronounced FOWD) UK Tour by Carsonified; a company who love large type and are “love with the web”. I’m not a designer. I’m not a developer. Why did I attend? Well, I too love the web. Unfortunately I’ve pretty much always lacked that part of the brain that’s ... More About: Designer , Web Designer
Fav Photo - Towards The Cranes
More articles from this author:2009-08-27 12:30:00 I’m going to attempt to start my ‘favourite photo’ series, having not done it since before the Summer. Eventually I will run out of images, but I like the idea of documenting some of my earlier photos that haven’t seen the light of day (and maybe a few that have, but you probably haven’t seen ... More About: Photo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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